all right let's get this meeting of the city of International Falls to order uh if you could please join me in pledging allegiance to the flag I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you everybody please note that all members of the council are present
uh chair would entertain a motion to approve the agenda as written I don't understand that there's any deletions or additions I'll make that motion we have a motion by councelor Holden do we have a second second second by councelor Buller discussion hearing none call the
question I I I I I'll vote Yes motion carries 5 Z next we go to our uh meeting agenda or I'm sorry our uh minutes from June 17th 24 chair would entertain a motion to approve those minutes I'll
move we have a motion by councelor Kaylor second second by councelor Wagner discussion hearing none call the question I I I I and I'll vote Yes motion carries 5 Z we'll go to accounts payable payments
and claims we have International Falls transfers going to the 101 general fund of $727 195 and that's coming from the 812 lodging tax fund International Falls uh payable and claims regular
International Falls claims of $234,450 18,9 11142 and major airport Capital plot project claims of $85,000 $5 5488 for total accounts payable in
claims of $78,750 chair would entertain a motion to adopt the resolution to pay the the payments and claims I'll make a motion we have a motion by councelor Holden second second by councelor wner any
discussion hearing none call the question hi I I I and I'll vote Yes motion carries 5 we'll go to audience is there anyone in the audience that would like to bring anything forward please come for forward and state your name and address for the
record good afternoon I'm uh Bill arson 17113 11th Avenue I guess I'm here to give you guys a little lesson this is a cop of the enabling
legislation for the sanitary suit District okay what it says [Applause] is I'll just read part of it qualifications for each board member shall be resident of the particular government
entity that he represents Mr Bigler are Bigler uh Mr U Briggs moved out of the city limits didn't he he has y so that makes him ineligible doesn't it
yes have of you guys ever seen this before any of you are you're on the board you're on the board you're on the board right you never heard about it before then why aren't you going by
it so uh representative uh Briggs was on the board we kept that on we opened it up to members in the community we have um we open up to MERS Community not
able to find else that's no reason that's what it and the board itself is also trying to uh change the legislation on how the membership works um I believe that uh councelor buler
could answer that because there's legislation to lower the amount of members that the city of International Falls has on that board right now is that not correct correct it's it's to lower that and also add one member to the uh East coo board because of the
expansion out there and there is no paper makers so that that board Position will be elimated and so will the South Falls report and uh Senator Senator house child has been carrying that right now but why would you change the
residency requirement or you're not um I the city of International Falls in our uh our um not the Constitution our Charter our Charter allows the mayor to appoint one person onto any board and commission
that does not live in the city of International Falls that can represent the city so therefore that is the one person that we used because we used our city Charter to give us the opportunity to be able to appoint someone that does not live in the
city as a representative of the city um they had a meeting last week didn't they a board meeting uh well you were gone I was gone at the last meeting so you it was they didn't
have a quorum did they no they didn't but they had a meeting anyways didn't they they what had a meeting anyways didn't they well it was just some discussion it wasn't anything boted on had a meeting no no actions were taken no action was taken huh no action was
taken what to violate the open meeting laws without a quorum they would have had to act on something they would have had to bring a motion no motions were made they still had me they talked about business though there yes and that was published that they that potentially a quorum would be there no open meeting
laws were violated that isn't what the meeting was supposed to be Al wasn't they couldn't hold a formal meeting because they didn't have a quorum they shouldn't have had a meeting I should have waited until you had one later that week though didn't
you no no you can still meet you can meet without a quorum you can meet with a Quorum you can't make actions or motions without a quorum and that wasn't done they talked about all the business though didn't they they are certainly allowed to do that they're allowed to do that you can talk about it yeah even
without a quum don't you think uh Mr Brigg should have resigned when he limits no not based off of what we have the opportunity to appoint we have the opportunity to appoint someone who doesn't live within
the city limits he's no longer a resident of the city once he moves out of the city limits I understand that we our city Charter allows the mayor to make an appointment did not even advertise did you yes we did when in
November and December we went out for applications for all open uh open appointments for all open appointments you didn't just advertise for a board member though did you we advertised for
All City appointments and we listed each one of what they were you didn't List It Down me all City appointments yeah all committees but not individually you
didn't list them yes they're they they tell you which committee if you want to apply for it that uh when you made an appointment in the spring or first year whatever it
was you asked if you could keep Mr brig's arm didn't you yes a non-resident I'm a resident at International Falls you know that I I do no and you were on the board and you had resigned and you've never asked to come
back on to that board it's pretty hard to get people on there isn't it it is so how are you going to correct them we're going to keep advertising for people to go on to that
board and you've had trouble with getting people on there for ever since you've been on there haven't you what appointments did you make on that board I've added City councilors onto that board the three city council members are
on there right you made appointments to that there's three of us on there huh there's three of us on there yeah there's four I'm just talking about the ones that are here right there two and myself are on the board and Mr Briggs he's not on the
city council Mr Briggs res Briggs is not on the council and he's he's not on the city council anymore but he was a resident at the time he got on there wasn't he well if the mayor has the right to appoint somebody to fill in until there's a
different you know selection of people that really want to be honored well then the rules in here say that if you got a opening supposed to be filled within 6 days what if you can't fill it then it's up to the judge to fill it
but it was filled it was filled you can appoint somebody I did I appointed Briggs you can appoint the resident yeah I can appoint a non-resident according to our city
Charter no you can't all right no you can't that you've had five minutes thank you you have to appoint a resident of International Falls you don't appoint somebody that's out in the city or out in the county just because you can't get anybody I think if there would have been
somebody there from International Falls that wanted to be on there he probably would have got appointed that person that isn't what it says but there was nobody that wanted to be on there so Brian Briggs has a ton of experience on there and the mayor has the right to put
them on there until we find somebody no you don't that is what it says well all right thank you I'm not done yet well you got five minutes to speak so um you've had 7 minutes to speak we've went longer than normal so I'm over to 5
minutes yes you are sir that's fine we'll see how fine it is Dr city or county attorney about me got the City attorney right here he can talk to all right anybody else from audience like to bring anything
forward all right hearing none we'll go to the new business uh Coalition of Greater Minnesota cities update Bradley Peterson welcome thank you Mr Mayor good evening uh my name is Bradley
Peterson here uh with the Coalition of Greater Minnesota cities uh we try to uh as you know get out and visit as many of our members as we can uh in the interim after the most recent legislative session and talk a little bit about um
what happened uh what we worked on uh hear what your concerns and and issues and interests are and talk a little bit about what we anticipate will come into play in the next legislative session so um really just want to kind of Hit the highlights of of kind of uh what we
worked on this year um I won't talk about everything that we did but if you do have specific questions or things that you want to ask about please uh fire away don't uh hesitate to interrupt me or uh we can make it as conversational as you want um as a reminder the Coalition represents uh
over 100 cities outside of the S County Metro area we work on issues related to local government Aid in property taxes Economic Development Transportation environmental Regulatory and funding and infrastructure issues and annexation and land use uh but we also as as you're
going to hear uh this year got pulled into a number of other issues that we were happy to happy to work on um you know last year the 2023 session uh was uh a big year at the legislature they had a big budget they passed a lot of policy uh and so I think our hopes and
expectations were that uh they would kind of take a break a little bit focus on what was really really important uh focus on what was really really necessary and basic um and then pump the brakes on any kind of new big policy um and so the things as we went into
session our priorities were Shore up our uh fragile EMS system uh we've been hearing a lot from our members including you guys over the last two years about the struggles around providing uh emergency ambulance uh Services uh pass a bonding Bill uh that funds
infrastructure uh especially water Wastewater uh Transportation projects things of that nature and then like I said pump the brakes on new policy they put a lot on cities in the 2023 session um and I think there's just you know needs to be some time to absorb all of
those changes and and work on actually implementing them and making sure that they can work work well um there was a little bit of a budget surplus that uh got a little bit of play uh but again it wasn't a budget year they did all of that last year um and so you know there were a few money items at play but it
really was about policy and then um the other items of EMS and bonding on the EMS piece we worked very closely with Senator housch child and representative lizard to introduce uh basically an emergency funding bill as we looked at the landscape of what needed to happen
with EMS it's a big topic there's lots of moving pieces there's lots of different constituencies there's lots of different ways of providing EMS throughout the state um but we jumped into to it because about 55% of the license holders are local governments and most of those are in R Minnesota
um and so we heard from our membership a real need for really providing some Financial Resources to just kind of bolster uh folks as they um did further work to to refine the EMS system and so um there was a legislative task force we
put together our own group of uh folks internally of our members to get a sense of of what needed to happen and again you know as we talked to folks around the state it came down to money money money and so the bill that we introduced with uh Sunder house child and representative lizard
really focused on onetime emergency aid uh of $120 million uh which is a lot of money it's a big ask um but it was very much based on statistics and figures gathered from the emergency uh Medical Services regulatory board uh for losses
that uh providers incurred in 2022 so we felt it was pretty Justified we were I think pretty disappointed when the governor came out with only $10 million for Aid um that was pretty low um and I think kind of got the convers ation off to a a bad start in terms of his supplemental
budget um as we went through all of the twists and turns and up to the very end uh we were able to secure uh $24 million for aid for uh providers and then there was $6 million for some Innovative programs and pilot programs um for a
number of parts of the state um a couple of counties uh St Louis being one of them and then um a couple of counties Out West Grant and Ottertail um but the $24 million is really kind of what we focused on that Aid um it'll be uh
there's a calculation of of what you would get there's a formula that we worked on with members of the legislature uh our estimate is that you guys will be getting approximately $212,000 um out of that uh it'll be payable at the end of the year with your local government aid and there's a a handout in the the packet that I gave
you that describes a little bit more some of the timelines um and the procedures around that and then obviously we'll continue to be in touch with our members as as um those plans are solidified by the emsrb or the agency that's now going to replace it um
and the Department of Revenue who's actually going to be responsible for putting the money out but uh we were able to put together a pretty broad Coalition uh worked very closely with the ambulance Association worked very closely with uh units of government from around the state um the bigger providers even though some of them were not going
to be getting any money were very helpful uh in our in our efforts and I think I think the the understanding is that uh this is only AB Band-Aid uh that we're not done uh by any means uh there's a lot more work to be done uh but I think you know part of that will
be identifying ongoing uh ways to fund these operations because obviously having it fall on on local governments to uh service very large service territories is just not a sustainable way to do this um I think if you were building a system from scratch uh this is not how you would have done it uh but
this is as they looked around the landscape in the 19 80s and saw what was happening and decided to formalize that this is the system we got so it'll take some some work uh both on the the regulatory side the reform side and then the money side but I think we're off to an okay start with the $24
million um I'll pause there if there's any questions or comment specifically about that because that was a big area of focus for our our work this year go ahead please and to keep plugging away on it and pushing hard to
get the rural parts taking care of yeah yeah I think you know we we were very upfront with folks um because you know one of the the not criticisms but concerns um put in our Direction was well you know onetime money isn't you know isn't going to solve the problem and no it isn't there's a long-term
issues uh that need to be sorted out and I think you know once we get into a little bit later in the fall and into the the early winter before the legislative session after the election and we have some understanding of what the the lay of the land is at that point I think we'll have some some more plans
going I mean my my brain is kind of clicking on some possible ideas but there's a lot of conversations that would have to have first but we're not giving up on it by no means perfect are some of the other uh communities having the same situation that we're in which is large service area one
municipality and no way of working with the other organizations because they don't have to go into agreement so why would you go into to an agreement y 100% that is that is you know um especially especially up north here um you know the
service territories are incredibly large and you're relying on the good graces of your neighbors to kind of help fund it um so yeah no it's a very common common problem okay excellent thank you please is there any talk at the federal level as far
as relooking the uh medicare payment because I think that's what's really causing most of it that hasn't been updated since the ' 80s from what I understand and and if that were to be updated by the feds I think that would probably take care of everybody's problem there's yeah there is uh been
discussion um we actually um we were talking earlier before the meeting at about the league of cities conference we had a panel breakfast that we hosted and one of the guys on the panel was from The Mao clinic and he does their regulatory stuff and is very plugged into the federal efforts and there's a number of a funding mechanism that he
referred to as extenders based on basically how rural is your service area um and it adds a little bit on top of the regular um payments and so I think one of the things that I know is under discussion is is enhancing certainly keeping but then also trying to enhance
some of those extenders um but it's I think a lot would have to be done and if if you really were going to get uh Medicare to to kind of fully reimburse for what the services cost um I'm you know there's efforts going on there but it's it's a slow slow Road as you know
okay thanks please so the formula how how's the formula determine the amount of yeah that's that's a good question and and I think we do in our packet here lay it out a little bit but it's really um a relationship of uh the size
of your uh service area and the volume of calls that you have and so the the larger your service area and the lower volume of calls you have compared to that you're not getting um sort of the scale that you need right to pay for the services your Aid amount will tend to be
higher um and so that's in very rough um kind of how it was the the spirit of the calculation there's kind of three different tranches of of dollars but two of them really relate to that one is just kind of a base amount that everybody who otherwise qualifies would
get and so the dollars themselves really went um to providers in rural areas um and also those skipped like the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and duth um and I think they also do St Cloud uh Mano um
has a a larger provider those folks basically got cut out of it because we really the legislature really wanted to focus on the the really rural areas of the state especially those that were being served either by local units of government joint Powers tribal
governments or you know there are still some for-profit entities that that you know are out there um but those are are further and further between so it's a complicated formula but basically it's a relationship of size of your service territory and volume of your your calls
so about how many um service areas are the size that we have how big is yours about 1,000 square miles holy cow you're on the very top end um you know the otherwise the ones that I'm most familiar with I want to say like Virginia might be 600 plus square
miles um so you guys are are very very large and do you know what they got for the Aid by any chance not off the top of my not off the top of my head close rural areas I mean the aid out of the 18 million right is what it uh 24 yeah well doesn't six of it go to a certain thing
there's 30 million there's 30 y there's 30 total 24 went into the aid program so it's even less we're we're at maybe 1% um we're getting close to that I mean there are probably a hundred some odd entities at least that are getting some
level of distribution and which is you know why we were you know I think really fully understanding that we needed to push for a higher amount of money in that that fund I mean I think you know nobody I think we should feel good that we got some money but nobody should feel
good that it was only $24 million compared to what the need is out of the 100 or so entities how many of them are a million or more dollars in the red I don't know that any of them are in terms of the the aid that they got no they
Ambulance Service um I would a few of them would be um you know I think some of the the you know again the range ones Hibbing Virginia they're probably in that neighborhood and there's some very small ones like uh say cooco I know they
only serve you know 95 you know square miles or something and they're their you know allocation was very low so yeah it's it's it's not ideal it's not perfect um I guess why wouldn't you have looked at the highest INB
INB entities mhm to provide them with a little more than uh you know one 1% or less yeah and that was honestly our initial uh proposal was really looking at what was your loss in 2022 and trying
to reimburse you for that um in working with legislators in both parties um there was a preference um especially on the part of Republicans to do more of a formula B formula based thing so our initial proposal I think was closer to what you envisioned and
you know that was part of the discussion but I think as Senator house child was trying to get a bill across the board weigh all of the interests and and you know actually you know get something past that was I think one of the concessions that he that he had to
make um I'll touch just briefly on uh bonding bill um of course last year there was a big bonding bill but they had missed the year before so this was really kind of just getting us back on schedule um we always uh Advocate pretty strenuously for the public facilities
Authority programs water Wastewater um lead pipe replacement starting some of the work that we did last year around that issue um other Grant programs that support economic development for any host of reasons um uh you know the legislature just was not able to get a
bonding Bill across the line uh you had lots of drama in the state senate with Senator Mitchell uh from Woodbury who was arrested uh for uh burglary um which kind of threw session into a spin for a bit and then you had a lot of just
competing uh competing items that uh the Democratic majorities wanted to work on there were con discussions around Constitutional Amendments and sports gambling and a whole bunch of things that uh was not a bonding Bill and so it was um there was just a lot of oxygen
taken out of the room on what we would consider kind of the core items of discussion um and so I think you know we'll be coming back next year obviously with advocating for those things you know putting the Press on um and I think there was less appetite this year
because they had done such a big Bill last year uh to make up for missing the year before um but that's not really an excuse I think that was their thought process but these things just pile up these projects that need to get done local projects that are important to all of our cities and then just the infrastructure stuff that's pre core to
the work that you do they get to be more expensive every year you push it out it becomes more expensive yeah it it's amazing as we talk to cities just you know they had a project that they you know originally got bids for you know two or three years ago and and the cost now is you know 30% higher you know just
some sort of really really extreme number and so you know I think it's on all of us to hold legislators accountable uh and the governor for getting a bonding Bill done next year um the one other item I want to touch on is um we spent a lot of time defending
along with our colleagues at the league of cities the Metro cities organization that represents the suburbs other uh local government groups uh City's prerogatives around zoning uh and um housing um and there was I have that note on
my there was a lot of effort to take away uh a lot of your Authority when it comes to to zoning and basically um allow for what or make you uh make you take uh what's referred to as up zoning which is putting you know more dense
number of units uh on single family lots um there are cities that are already doing this and can do it they have the authority to do it um they making those choices different cities will make different choices and so we spent a lot of time more than I would have liked honestly having to work on that issue um
and it really was kind of cities against the world um you had a lot of um the Realtors the builders um Progressive groups housing Advocates homeless Advocates labor unions the Federal Reserve all kinds of
people out there saying that this is the way that we should go um but in the end we were able to kind of just wrestle it down to a draw and nothing passed on the housing front but I do think it will continue to be a discussion um but I think our role in this as representatives of rural Minnesota is to
help the legislature and the powers that be understand that what might work in Minneapolis or minaka is not going to work and eye falls um and that you know you guys need to be given the flexibility to uh do housing in the way that makes sense for you um you know because a lot of these ideas are
predicated on Transit and in a lot of our communities there is not as robust a transit system um as there is in the Metro and so that's our role is to help continue to outline those differences um you know we all understand the need for housing we all want there to be more
housing um but you can't sideline the cities the folks who are largely uh you know need to be at the table in terms of implementing these things so that was a a big we spent so much time on it it was it was it was uh kind of
frustrating well I'd like to wish you good luck in them realizing what works down there won't work up here and if you get it done with housing I got a list of some others we problem yeah that and that's often you know the the role that we play is really to kind of explain these differences in like you know it's
just not the same uh down there as is up here out in Worthington or in Winona or you know wherever you might be in ryal Minnesota and it's different between if falls and Worthington and Winona and you know what works for you guys doesn't necessarily work for them either um kind of rounding
out to to conclusion here um we've got um a an election uh I think as we all know here coming up all 134 members of the House are up for election um and that I think will say a lot about what happens uh next year how that turns out
there's going to be at least one but potentially up to three special elections in the Senate um so we could see a fairly dramatic change in in in kind of the powers that be in St Paul or it could stay static I'm I'm not good at making predictions necessarily on that I've been burned many times so I've kind
of stopped I can give you the options but I can't I'm not going to give you a lot of uh uh specifics on what I think will happen otherwise we've got our Summer Conference coming up here at the end of the month in weight Park um and then our fall conference in Alexandria
this year and I know it's a it's a hall for you guys to go almost anywhere um but certainly uh if you can make it um I think it's well worth it uh to mix with our members hear some of the panel discussions that we put on talk about you know common issues that that uh affect cities in ryal Minnesota uh
they're generally pretty pretty good events and then session starts middle of January next year so it'll be off and running perfect any questions for Bradley I appreciate it thank you so much Brad absolutely thank you guys so much we
really appreciate the support and uh good luck with the rest of your meeting all right we'll uh we'll go to consider a road closure for Chamber of Commerce crazy days on July 31st 2024 Betsy zar
[Applause] good evening thanks for your time for letting allowing me to come here and talk with you about our annual crazy days celebration it's such a great time for local retail businesses to be able to out with the old and in with the new
get ready for fall and they really do count on this celebration that we do for them and as you mentioned July 31st is when we're doing it this year it's usually always the last Wednesday in July and um we would we are requesting the
same 300 and 400 blocks on Third Street and of course we'll be working with the state with Minnesota Department of Transportation for the approval to get that Street closed down Third Street Clos down and um we'll work with the city also cuz we you know we'll need
barricades and picnic tables again and waste baskets and I've already been speaking with Mike Wallace and he's been wonderful to work with well anybody at the city is always great to work with so very responsive which is really
nice and um what else can I tell you about for crazy days not nothing's really much different the food trucks we'll have we are going to have a bouncy house again this year any live music this year well you know
we would love to have some live music we're I'm working on it as hard and fast as I can um the problem is is you know the money part so you know when we had the contract with the city there was always x amount of dollars that was put towards that and it was about almost
$5,000 that we had to work with to support this we have $500 in our budget for it so um and I'm kind of behind the curveball because I would have loved to have come to you and asked you know was is this something you could help us support help the um retail support
something like this and I'm sure you would have received it well but um and we'll get more organized with that for next year is what our plan is I did want to make one correction I am now no longer the board chair of the chamber um I believe that leadership is meant to be
shared so I did step down and our new chair is Cali Briggs I do I am working with the chamber though as the events coordinator so that's you'll see me come before you over the next year for things just want to make that little correction all right
well at this time I guess the chair would entertain an option to do the road closure and provide uh the things that Miss Zarin has asked for for crazy days did did you say you were going to do the the call mot or take care of the mot
road closure yes they yes yeah we do we take care of that I'll make a motion we have a motion by councelor Holden do we have a second second second by councelor Buller any discussion please Chief any issues with
it perfect all the question hi hi hi and I'll vote Yes motion carries 5 Z thank you thank you so much have a good night thank you all right uh next consider request from kuchin County to suspend calendar
parking on fth street between 6th Avenue and 9th Avenue during the jail Expansion Project um do we have set dates on this at all just please Chief thank you mayor council uh short
answer is no fall of 2025 was in the letter okay so perfect that was all I had oh I appreciate that okay all right so the chair would entertain a motion to approve that uh calendar Park
um uh suspension so move we have a motion by councelor buler I'll second second by councelor Kaylor discussion call a question hi hi hi hi thanks CH bye glad you came I I really appreciate
you all right next we have a uh uh Board of zoning appeals um affirming the decision on a setback variance for if Falls real estate holding LLC doing business as the Falls Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram at 309 fth Street um the
resolution is before you and the chair would entertain a motion to approve that or affirm that decision I'll make a motion we have a motion by councelor Buller second second by
councelor Wagner Wagner all right any uh discussion Kelly no issues obviously since it came through no no issues at all also Bas part of
process absolutely y all right then I'll call the question I I I and I'll vote Yes motion cares 5 Z thank you uh next we have a resolution approving application for an exempt permit for the International Association of machinists
and Aerospace Workers Local 30 uh w33 to conduct a raffle with a drawing to be held on October 11th at the Bob walls Memorial Union Hall chair would entertain a motion to approve I'll make that motion we have a motion by
councelor Holden second second by councelor Wagner discussion hearing none call the question all I I and I'll vote Yes motion carries 5 next we have a committee of the whole
recommendation consider the first reading of the updated International Falls Charter has presented by the charter commission uh this one has been lingering for a while because we haven't had a full Council so now that we do chair would entertain a motion to have the first reading I'll move we have a
motion by councelor Kaylor do we have a second second second by councelor wigner discussion hearing none call the question I I I I and I'll vote Yes motion carries 5
Z next we have a uh little bit different thing we don't do very often but uh the chair would entertain a motion to close this meeting for the purpose of considering property acquisition with the full city council present per
Minnesota statute 13d do5 subsection 3 uh section three chair would entertain a motion to close this meeting I'll make that motion we have a motion by councelor Holden do we have a second second second by councelor
Wagner any discussion hearing none call a question I I I I I'll vote Yes motion carries 5 Z this meeting is closed are we back open yep all right uh we
have just came out of a closed session um to discuss uh the purpose of uh acquisition of property um the property that had been discussed uh we are
interested in looking at we will uh be having some City staff look at the building and upon getting more information this Council will make a decision on what uh what if we move forward on that so now we're at item
number 10 of our agenda any other business to come before the council please uh impound yard where we at on our impound yard I thought that was supposed to be done by now Chief thank you mayor council will be
the same as the other when I was a very short answer um Ted Ted like we said before has everything and he's waiting on external entity to move forward with it nothing to do with public works at all but again it's waiting on the guy I'm not sure who it is to come up and
and kind of hook stuff up with Minnesota Power I believe so the fence is all in place and all that's done the he didn't want to the last time I talked to him he didn't want anything didn't want the fence up because it makes it harder to put the wiring and stuff again this is stuff I'm not really familiar with um
and Ted is coordinating it but um so basically there's nothing done it no it's not ready yet no um we can only move as fast as we can get the people up here to work on it so that's where we're at um yeah we're like I said we the
county is still allowing us to store our vehicles at at the in phone lot we've had no issues on that front I I can't speak for for anything else as far as any discussions go with um the other stuff but um yeah we're working as hard as we can but at the end of the day T is
just waiting on people as far as I know any other business Public Works going to be working on that right get that thing done so we can move some cars we're getting a lot of calls about moving cars drunk cars I'm L stop I'm uh
I'm hearing uh calls for that that as well and I I would love to talk to you after after about that because there's some other weird issues all right uh any other business thanks Chief thanks again all right
we'll go to the reports of the administrator attorney department head City administrator uh Deputy has nothing to make excellent City attorney um I don't think I have anything additional I missed the last meeting um um did Betty update you kind
of on the airport legal stuff yes for annexation okay then I don't have anything else okay department heads Chief all right go to the reports of the mayor council committees boards and commissions I have nothing anybody else
uh got a couple please so we had a uh airport steering committee meeting um councelor Kaylor and I attended with uh commissioner m ter and schum and Betty and Adam Co we had a really good meeting
this time annexation is moving forward um I'm hoping we're done with it by the end of this year um so it's that's good news um we've worked on all the properties now uh Walt was at the airport commission meeting where we brought up the some of the questions on
there was a couple of properties that had we had questions on so descriptions need to be changed legal description notifi that they yeah with mainly descriptions and that was uh voted there to move that forward too so and we'll be continuing to work
on the joint Powers agreement as we go forward with the the steering committee which is scheduled for July 30th I believe the next one I believe so y um then an airport commission meeting which what uh we talked about there where we brought uh hopefully get a move on
working on a uh Emergency Response Center to be put out there uh hopefully um they're going to get a hold of Adam manasa and uh s what are that what's the SE SE
to look into the FAA funding for that uh request for that which would be a a fantastic thing for our community y absolutely huge um we had a land land use and legislation meeting today was not very well attended but um leis and I
discussed um all the stuff and Oh I thought it was being canc really nothing new to bring out there oh no we didn't cancel it we solved all the world's problems excent um but yeah that's that's all I got all right um anybody in audience
have anything to bring forward hear none will uh your correspondence the Minnesota State demographers office uh population estimates International Falls Rainer Rainy Lake uh convention and visitors bureau meeting meting minutes from June
cooin County Board of Commissioners meetings from June 11th and 18th uh we will be closed on Thursday July 4th uh our next meeting council meeting is going to be July 15th at 5:30 there is a
concert going on very shortly over at bakis you guys should swing on over and watch Chris cruy uh from The Voice um should be should be a good time to beer gardens are still over at the amphitheater so go there first yeah no
what yeah go go there after can't go to the beer gardens first why can't you have a you agree why can't you have a designated driver Poss why can't you have I don't know how you act that be GS I'm just going to go
have a beer with my cheese curs I don't know I how you whack that the beard Gard I was bringing my wife she was driving yeah all right uh this this meeting is adjourned all